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Source: http://fathomjournal.org/returning-jihadis-a-generational-threat/
Returning Jihadis: A Generational Threat
(Fathom-BICOM) Peter Neumann - It was a mistake to believe that with the killing of Osama Bin Laden and the elimination of al-Qaeda's leadership, the threat of jihadism had ceased to exist. It returned ferociously only two years later with ISIS. It is possible that ISIS will disappear, but I am convinced that in five years, we will still be talking about a jihadist movement that is a threat that will keep us preoccupied for a generation. Over the past four to five years we have seen an unprecedented mobilization of people in the name of that movement - more than 30,000 people from a hundred different countries. For the first time we have seen the mobilization of over 5,000 Western Europeans who have gone to Iraq to join jihadist groups. Around 50% have already died and more will do so in the final battles. The writer, Professor of Security Studies at the Department of War Studies at Kings College London, is the author of Radicalised: New Jihadists and the Threat to the West.